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Hands on Media History
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ABSTRACT
Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound.
Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern era’s most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day?
Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|80 pages
Media histories
chapter 2|17 pages
Bringing the Living Back to Life
chapter 3|15 pages
A Blind Date with the Past
chapter 4|18 pages
(De)Habituation Histories
part Part II|83 pages
User communities
chapter 6|19 pages
Photography against the Anthropocene
chapter 7|16 pages
On the Performance of Playback for Dead Media Devices
chapter 8|19 pages
The Archaeology of the Walkman
chapter 10|12 pages
Enriching 'Hands on History' through Community Dissemination
part Part III|62 pages
Labs, archives and museums